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🎵 Bonus Track — “Reconciliation Breakdown” (From The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast)

This original track captures the chaos, tension, and eventual clarity of Episode 1: When Reconciliations Break.
Inspired by the Wizard’s Workshop, tangled bank feeds, and the emotional rollercoaster every small business owner knows too well, this song blends gritty 90s-style dynamics, distorted guitars, and raw storytelling into a cathartic, loud-soft-loud release.

It’s the sound of:

clicking the wrong thing at 1 a.m.

discovering duplicates you swear weren’t there yesterday

facing the Recon Monster

and finally watching everything snap into place

Whether you’ve ever shouted at QuickBooks or just need something that hits with truth and energy — this track is your anthem.

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When Reconciliations Break — Inside the Wizard’s Workshop

I promised you a Saturday episode — and here it is.

Thank you for your patience while I wrestled with production, recording, editing, and a few surprise monsters along the way. I said I’d deliver this on Saturday, and I meant it.

This one goes deep.

Reconciliations don’t fall apart all at once. They break slowly, quietly, invisibly… until suddenly nothing matches and everything feels wrong. In today’s Workshop session, we’re finally getting honest about why reconciliations break, how they break, and what you can actually do to fix them without panic or shame.

If you’ve ever felt defeated by a reconciliation that refuses to balance, you are not alone — and you are not the problem. The system is trying to tell you something. This episode helps you hear it.

🔍 In this episode you’ll learn:

The Four Patterns of Reconciliation Failure

Why starting balances go rogue

How duplicates creep in behind the scenes

Why uncleared transactions haunt you for months

What forced reconciliations really do

A simple, repeatable method to fix a broken reconciliation

How to keep things clean moving forward

All presented through the Workshop: warm, clear, humorous, and honest — with a few magical moments, cameos, and chaos courtesy of The Tangle.

❤️ Thanks for sticking with me this week.

Your trust means a lot, and I hope this episode brings clarity and confidence to your bookkeeping world.

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I am experiencing some technical challenges and won't be able to release the season premier as scheduled. It will be available no later than Saturday, December 6th, 2025 at Noon. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Believe me. I've spent the day now it is late and I just can't take anymore today.

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Step into the Workshop.

This is the brand-new Season 2 Theme Song for The QuickBooks Wizard — a synthwave-rock / funk hybrid straight from Feedy & The Bank Feeds, built for the world where spellbooks meet spreadsheets and Carl keeps the beat.

If you’ve followed the show for a while, you already know the Wizard’s world runs on two things:
magic and math — and sometimes those lines blur in all the best ways.

This theme sets the tone for the new season:

• humming circuits
• glowing ledgers
• automation rhythms
• and that signature Wizard spark

You’ll hear Feedy in the verse guiding the flow, the Wizard carrying the chorus, and both jumping in for a rhythmic spoken bridge. It's fun, it’s weird, and it captures exactly where Season 2 is heading:
less chaos, more clarity… and a whole lot of personality.

🎧 Turn it up. Let it take you into the Workshop.
Season 2 begins

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What happens when the monster isn’t gone — just balanced?

In “The Monster with Two Faces,” Feedy & The Bank Feeds explore the tension between appearance and reality, profit and loss, truth and perception. It’s the calm after the mirror breaks, where you realize that balance doesn’t come from perfection — it comes from seeing both sides clearly.

This track continues the emotional thread that began with “Monster in the Mirror.” Where that song was raw and confessional, this one is composed and knowing — the Wizard’s quiet walk through Golden Brook, a place where lessons linger longer than mistakes.

🎧 Lyric Highlight:

Behind the calm rhythm lies a hard truth: even when your ledgers are clean, your heart may still be out of sync. But seeing both sides — the credit and the debit, the success and the cost — is where real clarity begins.

The Monster with Two Faces is more than a song about bookkeeping. It’s about learning to live with duality — to stop fighting one side of yourself and start reconciling both.

🎵 Written & performed by: Feedy & The Bank Feeds
💡 Produced in the world of: The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast

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When the dust finally settles, the Wizard doesn’t stand in triumph — he stands in reflection.

After a season of monsters, messes, and moments of revelation, this finale brings it all back to center.

No dragons, no chaos — just a quiet hill, a soft glow from the staff, and the truth every bookkeeper learns sooner or later:
order isn’t the end of the story … it’s the beginning of the next one.

In “The Next Cycle,” the Wizard looks back on what the first season has built — a world where bookkeeping lessons, laughter, and faith in perseverance meet storytelling and heart. It’s the moment before dawn, the pause between closing one ledger and opening another.

And as the credits roll, a new sound rises: Feedy & The Bank Feeds make their first musical appearance — a subtle outro that hints at what’s coming in Season 2. The monsters are still out there, but they’re humming along to the beat now.

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🎵 Music

Outro music: Feedy & The Bank Feeds – “Live from the QuickBooks Wizard Universe”
Because even wizards need a soundtrack for their spreadsheets.

🪄 Episode Highlights

• Reflection and closure after a season of chaos
• Honest talk about what “balance” really means for bookkeepers and business owners
• Hints at the themes and tone for Season 2
• First musical appearance from Feedy & The Bank Feeds

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From the same chaotic universe that brought you Out of Sync Again, Feedy and the crew are back — staring down the scariest monster of all: the one in the mirror.

🎶 A song from the QuickBooks Wizard Universe — where bookkeeping meets rhythm, and chaos meets creativity.

Written by Brian Cogan
Produced with AI collaboration
© 2025 Automated Bookkeeping of Arizona

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Straight from The QuickBooks Wizard Podcast universe — Feedy & The Bank Feeds are back with their debut track, “Out of Sync Again.”
When your bank feeds miss a beat, the whole ledger starts to groove off-time.

🎩 Wizard on keys.
💚 Feedy on vocals.
🥁 Reconciliation on drums (calculator optional).

🎧 Listen to the full album “Out of Sync Again” → [YouTube playlist link]
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